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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Reading #27: K-sketch: A 'Kinetic' Sketch Pad for Novice Animators (Davis)

Comment:
Chris
Summary:
In this paper, they introduced the K-Sketch, a general purpose, informal,2D animation sketching system. At first, they do the field studies investigating the needs of animators and would-be animators helped us collect a library of usage scenarios for their tool. Then they design the set of operations for animation as well as some optimazation techniques they used in K-Sketch. Experiment shows that K-Sketch when comparing to formal animation tool(ppt), participants worked three times faster, needed half the learning time, and had significantly lower cognitive load with K-Sketch.

Discussion:
In fact, I am thinking about building such kind of system, and K-Sketch is what I am expecting. For most of novice users, using flash software for animation is not easy task, user need such system to fasten the process of making animation. After reading this paper, I cannot wait using that system to see how is it working!!

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